The curious case of the canceled column store criteria
Did Mike Stonebraker change his mind about what the criteria are from a column store database (CDBMS) or did someone spill coffee on Vertica’s WordPress install and short out his post? Either way I was surprised to see Mike’s blog — in which he opined on the criteria for column…
Standing up for the real column stores
I am delighted to see Curt Monash has entered the debate on Mike Stonebraker’s *Real Column Store* blog post. I’ve already responded to Mike but Curt’s post brings up some other things worthy of consideration: >There are some good things about [Mike Stonebraker’s] post, and some not-so-good. The worst paragraph…
Challenging the column store criteria
*The following is a response to Mike Stonebraker’s recent blog post,* Will the Real Column Stores Please Stand Up? *I originally left it as a comment to that post but so far it has not been published. I can’t imagine they have a very long moderation queue or that Mike…
SAND: Analytic User Scale
Data warehousing applications require a database system capable of efficiently performing ad hoc queries on large amounts of data. Traditional systems designed for OLTP applications with conventional lock-based schedulers do not perform well in this environment. For a query that visits every row in a table, a lock-based scheduler must…
SAND listed on the Data Mining Group’s PMML product page
Just a quick note to let everyone know SAND is now listed on the Data Mining Group’s PMML (Predictive Model Markup Language) product page. Our team worked very hard to deliver PMML functionality to SAND, which enables analytics on Extreme Data with even greater flexibility. Complex mathematical and statistical models,…
SAND Technology Makes Software 500 List
MONTREAL, Nov. 18, 2010 — SAND Technology Inc. (OTCBB: SNDTF.OB), today announced SAND’s inclusion on *Software Magazine*’s 2010 Software 500 list. SAND markets and develops SAND CDBMS, the world’s most advanced column-oriented, bit vector database and the only database that supports the volume, variety, and velocity of Extreme Data. The…
SAND Technology Announces Support for PMML
MONTREAL—November 16, 2010— SAND Technology Inc. (OTCBB: SNDTF.OB), today announced the introduction of support for the PMML (Predictive Model Markup Language) standard for statistical and data mining models in its industry-leading SAND CDBMS column-oriented, tokenized, bit-vector database. This new feature extends the power of SAND CDBMS to handle Extreme Data…
Extreme Data
Last week I met with the team at Gartner and we discussed the concept of “Extreme Data”. Gartner states there are three dimensions to Extreme Data — volume, velocity, and variety, — and these dimensions are critical when it comes to winning the battle for control of enterprise data amid…
The secret data warehouse tax
There’s a dirty little secret in the traditional transactional data warehouse world: they know how to tax you as effectively as any profligate government. You invest in your data warehouse. You invest time. You invest money. You dedicate personnel and resources to your data warehouse. You pay the vendor to…